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ROSE: A BIOGRAPHY OF ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY by Gail Cameron. 247 pages. Putnam...
John the Bold. The source of what is now known as the Kennedy determination to "work harder than anyone else" was, as nearly everyone knows, the garrulous mayor of Boston. John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald prided himself on an ancestor named "Shawn a Boo" (John the Bold) and took as his slogan: "What I undertake, I do. What I want, I get." Honey Fitz proudly took Rose with him everywhere, and the girl never forgot that she was the mayor's daughter. She quoted her father so often that friends nicknamed her "Father says...
They are all going to go out West, not because they saw Easy Rider, but because of Nathanael West and Charlie Manson and earthquakes and Scott Fitzgerald and St. Mawr and Taco Bell and the beach. After all, if the country isn't there, where...
...divert him. He is imprisoned by conspicuously useless memory-laden objects-his wife's dresses, his own collection of sculpture and painting, the very size of his rooms. These keep him from understanding his life; they keep him thinking about surplus value subjectively and purely in itself, as Scott Fitzgerald might have said in a drunken Marxist moment...
...college boys, these were the people Scott Fitzgerald chronicled in This Side of Paradise, a first novel which caused a sensation during '21's junior year. They graduated into a world of raccoon coats and Warren Harding, crazy prosperity followed by a dizzying bust. During the final weeks of their spring reading period, Sacco and Vanzetti endured their first trial. In 1921, Lenin announced his New Economic Policy, Ezra Pound's first four cantos were published, and Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie hit the boards. Radio was catching...